James Burke Connections - 03 Distant Voices

A crime there's no more shows like this. I watched it when first broadcast every episode

I remember this show vividly on the Learning Channel, when it was still an educational channel.

Every minute of this show can yield libraries of information. Imagine compiling all this pre-Internet?! Absolutely amazing!! 😮

All the James Burke shows are pretty good, but none compare to the sheer magic of the original Connections. The amount of planning and preparation it took to pull this off on film was enormous.

Fun Fact: The actor playing Henry V in the St. Crispin's Day speech scene is the same Mark Wing-Davey who would later play Zaphod Beeblebrox in "The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy."

This was a great show ... 50 or so years ago. Back when they made shows like this, I loved it.

This show sparked two life long interests in me, science and history. While I never pursued them as a career I have been endlessly fascinated by both. Thank you James for enriching my life and, no doubt, so many others.

RIP Arecibo Observatory

I've wanted James Burke's productions to be on YouTube for years. Connections was great but I think The Day the Universe Changed was even better.

I remember watching this when it debuted on PBS in the fall of 1979 (broadcast the year before in the UK). I was 15 then and absolutely glued (the original broadcast included a hosting by E.G. Marshall who had an aftershow panel of 3 giving comments about the show's topic for the evening--kinda miss that. Is that around somewhere?). I'm much older now and still absolutely glued. Journalist James Burke's excellent historical & scientific understanding, looking at technological change in a post-modernist kind of way (i.e., non-linear) combined with those lavish and wonderful incomparable BBC production values makes Connections a timeless classic. One of the all time very BEST!.

Rather James Burke than Professor Brian Cox and Lucy Worsley!

James Burke is still alive 2023!

"Still, it was such a good way to slaughter people, there had to be some way to make it work." I love how he so nonchalantly captures the very real thinking of so many throughout history.

I remember watching this chap when i was a young boy now im 55,damn.Cant believe they are that old,they were very entertaining and educational, something we no longer get anymore.

The sarcasm at 18:53 and 21:05 about the peasants getting ahead and having money/good standard of living not being liked by the rich and powerful sums up the last 50 years of US economic history.

I loved this show. I thought it was so eye-opening how it connectec seemingly unrelated developments to illustrate history in a way school never did or could.

I think it's extraordinary how they let him just lean on tombs and sit in thrones and manhandle antiquities. No boundaries for Jim!

I remember as a teenager watching this series and thought it was the best bit of telly at the time. It’s of the same genre as Johnny Ball’s Think again. What I mean by that is they both made you interested in how they presented the material. I can only think of one other person who does the same is David Attenborough

8:02 Carmina Burana 9:16 Prokofiev -- Romeo & Juliet 35:22 Milhaud Boy, this guy loves Classical Music.

That white leisure suit is fabulous! Much sneered at in its time, but this one is beautifully cut and really stands the test of time.